Posted on 04/21/2010 12:38:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
New bill would make it near impossible to legally consume horse meat in Florida
Equine diners might find it hard to stomach the latest changes proposed to make it harder to buy and sell horse meat, but Mr. Ed is somewhere naying in approval. Additional restrictions on horse meat consumption have cleared the Florida House as part of an animal protection bill. The measure won unanimous approval Wednesday and will probably get similar support in the Senate.
Current law bars the sale of horse meat for human consumption unless clearly stamped, marked, and described as being for that purpose.
But that didn't stop horse poachers from slaughtering at least 21 horses in Miami-Dade County last year and shining a new bloody light on the black market horse meat trade.
The soon to be law would prohibit the transporting, distributing, purchasing or possessing of horse meat for human consumption without such a stamp, mark or description.
But it also makes the fines and penalties a lot steeper for someone who dares to violate.
It includes a minimum mandatory penalty of a year in jail and $3,500 fine for violations and raises the maximum to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
>I don’t have a problem with that as long as the horse is humanely killed.<
This is the ENTIRE issue, IMO. Since horse slaughter house operations in the US have closed they are now being inhumanely killed in Mexico. The horses that were stolen in Florida were probably killed and butchered in a Cuban butcher shop and the meat sold locally.
I doubt if it was passed off as a different kind of meat because it sure doesn’t taste like pork or beef, too lean.
>>How come some of the people raising Cain about killing horses will defend the right to kill a viable baby anyway. It’s a wierd world Willlllbur.<<
Ain’t that the truth!
I thought were were in the new era of “pie.”
Wow. The government is creating a black market for horse meat.
Typically stupid.
Actually, it tastes like chicken.
I don’t think they really care. They just want the votes and do it because they can.
We are so far outside of the Constitutional bounds with our government what is to stop them?
Nothing less than military intervention and a short, but bloody civil war. Remember who we're dealing with.
Had it in Europe. Considered a delicacy, is often smoked and served in cold cuts, very lean and very red, similar in texture and color as buffalo meat. Also served in beefsteak tartare in better restaurants but best served as panfried steak with spring potatoes and salad. A good bordeaux goes well with it.
Hi-ho Silver!
(What the hell am I doing? I’m a Texan.)
Um, did you read the article? The headline read:
New bill would make it near impossible to legally consume horse meat in Florida
Doesn't sound like what you wrote.
Montana is doing it right...
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